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i rescued a baby black australop yesterday and could use some serious advice on how to treat and repair. It appears the the baby chick was handled very roughly and may have a broken leg as a result. is there anything I can do to help it, I actually recieved a pair of them, one roo, one baby...

I have a friend who gave me a rooster today, it looks like a RIR, has the green tail feathers, nice deep red color on the bird, but what is throwing me off is the comb. its a rose come and it hangs off to the side. I'm guessing the age of the bird is somewhere between 6 months and a year. He is...

Lol just kidding , but seriously I did find him sitting on 4 eggs tonight. Is this normal behaviour for roo? Is he giving the ladiies a break, or did he just happen to find the box that had the eggs and decide to make himself comfy?

I am seriously considering purchasing a wood chipper to start making my own bedding. I realize that the payback on a chipper would take a long time considering that the bags of pine shavings at the feed mill are only $5.50 each, but I am planning on having chickens a long time and it is a pain...

Im not sure where to start looking for the right information about selling chicken eggs. I have been selling to my neighbors for awhile now and that is not a problem. The owner of the local gas station/mini mart has asked me if I would start selling him eggs to sell in the store. I sure that I...

I am on day 20 and up until now everything has been perfect. I went into my incubator room this morning and the humidity in the bator dropped to 24% and I noticed that my water tray was bone dry. I have a 5 gallon bucket with a hose to the tray and the bucket was still half full. I know it is...

I went to my meatie pen this morning and found one dead bird, dont know why it died but it was the oldest out of the flock. 6 weeks old. Then I found one of the 4 week olds with I think a broken leg. my question is, is it more humane to put it down now, or will it be ok to let it continue to...

I am getting ready for my first freezer camp. I think I have everything I need to do the deed. But I do have a couple of questions if someone could please help me out. 1) how long does the bird need to go without feed and water before processing? 2) once the processing is done and the birds are...

I have 2 seven week old RIR's. I've had both of these chicks since they were a week old. To this day, neither one like to be handled. All of my other chicks will let me handle them, pet them, and sit on my lap. Not these two. I believe they are both Roo's because of the red combs and waddles...

Will this cross make a good meat bird? Does anyone know. I dont see much about the white plymoth rocks posted around here? I'm asking the question because I have 5 of each. All straight run so at this point I dont know about the sex of any of them as they are only 8 days old now. But if I get...

It all started one day with a trip to the lumber yard and here it is 200 years later and the poultry penetentuary is finally open. and acepting new jailbirds. a couple of pics to show off our labor intensive effort. It even comes with its own security detail

I had the bright idea that building a worm bed would help supplement my flocks addiction to food. I did a little research on the topic and can start a bed of meal worms 1000 count for about 30 bucks... Is this a good idea or should it go to the tin hat folder and me move onto bigger and better...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? The quick answer is yes...I am new to chickens.... but it didnt take me long to fall in love with the little critters... (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Inadvertently I ended up with 85... I didnt intend for that to...

I am a chicken newbie and this one came out of TSC's straight run bin... please tell me what she is..... she is 6 weeks old

Psst.. hey you!! HEY.. up there.... you have to know that we have some freeloaders around here... Hey look at me..... I'm a cowboy.... WOOOO HOOOO......

My meaties are now 5 weeks old.. pics were taken about 3 days ago.. They are getting so BIG..

Can somebody please tell me how to post pics in the forum. I have already put them in my upload folder, but cant move them over here. I want to show pics of my meaties and dont know how to post the pics.. Please please help the computer inept..

I have all my chickens out in the coup and run now and everynight I have to try and round them up to get them to go into the coup. It turns out to be about a 45min chicken chase every night. Sometimes by the time I get down to the last few they will figure out that they are alone and will go up...

I purchased 15 mixed birds from TSC and put them in the brooder, a week later I went back and purchased 10 Cornish Rock and put them in the broooder with the others. It has been almost a week since I did this and I have had a feeder in front of them 24/7 not realizing that the Cornish were a...

I was pulling chicks from the bins at TSC and took 10 Cornish Rock chicks. (I liked the picture on the box..) Ive had them about a week and a half and then heard that they are a "Broiler" chicken. Does that mean that they are the hybrid ones that are used for meat birds? if so, any help on this...